Our team
The Fund is run by a small, expert team and hosted by the Network of European Foundations.
Catherine Miller, Co-Director
catherine.miller@europeanaifund.org
Catherine leads the Fund’s team, making sure that everyone works in sync and looks after our strategic direction. Previously she worked in tech policy as Director of Policy and then CEO of Doteveryone, the responsible technology think tank, and as a consultant. Prior to that she had a career as an award-winning journalist for the BBC covering news and current affairs from around the world for TV, radio and online. Catherine is based in Wuppertal, Germany.
Evelyne Paradis, Co-Director
evelyne.paradis@europeanaifund.org
Evelyne Paradis has spent more than twenty years working across organisational leadership, governance and social justice advocacy. Her experience includes a range of roles within the human rights and equality sector, most notably 14 years as Executive Director of ILGA-Europe, the European and Central Asian LGBTI organisation. She has a long track record of working closely with movements and enabling them to drive change at structural levels. Evelyne is based in Brussels, Belgium.
Peggye Totozafy, Senior Partnerships Manager
peggye.totozafy@europeanaifund.org
Peggye looks after Fund’s partnerships and leads our fundraising efforts. Hailing from impact philanthropy, she specialises in pioneering approaches to boost corporate and foundation giving strategies. Previously, she served as both a fundraiser and a donors community builder at Epic Foundation, a global tech & impact-focused foundation.
Her academic background includes a Master’s degree in International Relations with a focus on Humanitarian work from Sciences Po Paris, as well as a Master’s degree in Law with a focus on Tax & Wealth Management. Peggye is based in Paris, France.
Līva Vikmane, Programme Manager (Community and Insights)
liva.vikmane@europeanaifund.org
Līva works with our community to facilitate learning and connections, and leads Fund’s communications. She comes from civil society sector, where she has held various roles doing policy, advocacy and campaigning. In her previous role at HateAid as EU policy and advocacy officer, she worked on the European tech policy and regulation, with a focus on gender-based online violence and users’ rights. She holds a Master’s degree in Digital Media, Ethics and Social Change from the University of Sussex. Līva is based in Brussels, Belgium.
Alexandra Toth, Programme Manager (Grantmaking)
Alexandra.toth@europeanaifund.org
Alexandra manages and innovates our grantmaking practices, and looks after monitoring, learning and evaluation of our work. Previously, she worked in the field of cultural diplomacy. Prior to that she worked in the government affairs team of a tech company and in the European Parliament. She holds a Master’s degree in European Studies from ULB (Univesité Libre de Bruxelles). Alexandra is fascinated by digital technologies and their implications on society. Alexandra is based in Brussels, Belgium.
Monika Ramos, Programme and Grants Officer
Monika ensures our operations and administration run smoothly, supporting effective grant-making. She brings extensive experience in project and programme management, previously serving as Project Manager for the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN) for three years. There, she organised training sessions on Criminal Justice and Judicial Training for judges, prosecutors, and courts.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in French and a Bachelor’s in Political Science focused on Regional Integration Studies from the University of Texas at El Paso, along with a Master’s in Political Science from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Monika is based in Brussels, Belgium.
Our Steering Committee Co-Chairs
Each of our funding partners takes part in our Steering Committee which helps set the strategic direction. Our current Steering Committee co-Chairs are:
Carla Hustedt, Co-Chair of the Steering Committee
Carla Hustedt is the director of the “Centre for Digital Society” at the Mercator Foundation. She has been working on the societal impact of digitalisation for several years, until April 2021 as the head of the Bertelsmann Foundation’s “Ethics of Algorithms” project. Carla Hustedt is a member of the advisory board of the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) and the initiative “SheTransformsIT. She holds a dual degree in Public Administration from the London School of Economics and the Hertie School of Governance with a focus on e-governance. In 2010 she founded the German-Ghanaian human rights organisation “Boa Nnipa”.
Guillermo Beltrà, Co-Chair of the Steering Committee
Guillermo Beltrà is the Policy Director at Luminate Strategic Initiatives. Previously Guillermo led the Technology and Society team at the Open Society Foundation’s Europe and Central Asia Program. In the past Guillermo also led Access Now’s policy team globally, and before that, he was director of Legal and Economic Affairs at the European Consumer Organisation, where he led the policy and advocacy work on digital and technology policy.